You read that right, auto enthusiasts: the History Channel will produce the on-again-off-again American version of Top Gear. The announcement came from TG’s blog and was confirmed on the History Channel’s Twitter feed. NBC had originally promised to produce the American Top Gear, but plans ultimately fell through.

In case you haven’t heard of it and are therefore dead, Top Gear is a (typically) highly entertaining show on Britain’s BBC that combines car reviews, outrageous stunts, and artsy camera work. Older episodes are rebroadcast in the U.S. by BBC America, but that’s apparently not enough for car nuts: the BBC claims TG is one of the most illegally downloaded TV shows in the world.

Production of the first of ten episodes of the American version reportedly starts today, and the show will air this fall. It will be hosted by racer Tanner Foust, comedian Adam Ferrara, and NASCAR analyst Rutledge Wood. We hope the U.S. version isn’t just a stale copy-and-paste of the BBC show, and that Foust, Ferrara, and Wood can capture the same sort of chemistry shared by UK hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May—without a similar rapport between the three Yanks, TG America could be a flop. As TG fans, we’d call such a failure one of the biggest bummers (cue British accent) in the woooorld.